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The scientific method is good for some things but it can't settle every disagreement. Many sources of disagreement are about what we should or shouldn't value. Science can't tell us that. Then add on the complexity that scientists are human and have just as much bias as everyone else. Studies are corrupted by ideology ALL THE TIME. Most people don't have the resources to do original experiments to settle every question, so we end up having to decide whether to trust other biased people's claims about what science says. The 1st amendment is primarily about freedom of belief and the sovereign right of the individual to decide truth for themselves. It removes gatekeepers and spreads power. Many people will misuse that power but the alternatives are all worse.

@thinkyaxis @pastorbolota @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes There are no gatekeepers to creating and continuously improving facts. It's called the scientific method. It's every individuals' choosing if they want to create provable facts or alternate facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientifi…

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

@jaakkokorhonen @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes Who makes the rules about what is true and what is ok to say? Would you trust your worst enemy to set those rules? Rules have their place but some things can’t be governed because nobody can be trusted to govern them.

@thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes In rules based world order, we assume we follow the rules regardless of the consequences.

@harukaawake Much worse is that she was the most boring, pointless character ever

I sometimes have to wonder why Hollywood casts these types of Asians when there are so many better looking ones. No offense to this lady but why was she chosen for Star Wars? If you wanted an Asian lady, why her?

@alexppeloquin @RepOgles The day before Easter is a heck of a day to post this. The comments should be fun. Just out of curiosity, do you know what Easter celebrates?

@RepOgles If Jesus was alive today, you think he’d approve of America’s actions or our position toward the world?

Just as Christians recognize, fast, and reverently participate in the life of Christ during Holy Week, America’s institutions should reflect that same reverence. That is why I have introduced legislation to lower the US flag to half-staff on Good Friday and Holy Saturday. This would serve as a solemn reminder of Christ, who was crucified for our transgressions against a holy God. Christ is King of America, and we should honor Him accordingly.

@MrJustinFREAKIN You don’t like him + someone accused him = literally true. Seems legit.

You people elected a literal pedophile president. Maybe shut the fuck up?

@VulgarDpplgngr @unclejfranklin @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes 😆

@thinkyaxis @unclejfranklin @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes

@unclejfranklin @VulgarDpplgngr @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes Minutes better spent other ways. If the headline is that stupid, why reward them by reading the article it advertises? And why assume it has anything more valuable to say than the stupid headline?

@thinkyaxis @VulgarDpplgngr @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes Because it would take a couple minutes?

@jaakkokorhonen @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes That assumes that the law is the only way for there to be harsh consequences for lying. If the populace cared as much about the truth as they do about their tribe winning, news outlets that do this would go bankrupt in short order.

@thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes That's how it's assumed to work. When lying is interpreted to be protected by law, the math is unfortunately going to be that it's easier to make another lie than to check the facts. The difference in interpretation is why America has JD Vance and Europe has Kaja Kallas.

Yes, actually. The alternative to a right to lie and a right to be stupid is giving gatekeepers the right to decide what is true for everyone and what counts as "smart". We know exactly what happens. Things like "trans women are women" become 'facts' and people get punished for saying otherwise. I do believe there should be consequences other than legal for news outlets who display this level of either dishonesty or incompetence. In a rational world, people would cancel subscriptions en masse.

@pastorbolota @thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes In American ideology, Freedom of Speech includes the Right to Lie and Right to be Stupid. Exercising that, deliberate stupidity becomes a form of dishonesty.

@VulgarDpplgngr @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes With a headline that stupid, why bother reading the article?

@thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes Headline? Entire article is based on this premise.

Journalists being dishonest and everyone publicly roasting them for it is exactly how the first amendment is meant to work. There are no gatekeepers that get to decide what the truth is for everyone else. The consequences to saying stupid, untrue things is that you lose all credibility, like NYT has among anyone who doesn't live inside their information bubble. Making it illegal to spew the nonsense they spew would just grant the power to decide what's true to some judge somewhere.

@thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes That's the American version of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. You are expected to have your own alternative facts.

@vox_sara @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes It's worse than that. The editors didn't catch this.

@thinkyaxis @NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes Do they not have editors anymore?

@TRHLofficial @thatstarwarsgrl I have no idea who that is. She might as well be wearing a costume called "generic high maintenance woman".

@thatstarwarsgrl She’s gotta up her game. I get recognized at the airport and all I do is shitpost on the internet.

I googled her & I still don’t know who she is🤷‍♀️

@NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes The entire headline was based on that misunderstanding of what NATO even means. That's just catastrophic levels of incompetent journalism.

@sissenberg @nytimes A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition: "A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."

@btbsoco Or you could focus of the stuff Christ told us to do. That seems more Christian to me but you do you.

Christians must oppose the heresies of: Unitarians, Mormons, Oneness Pentecostals, and Watchtower organisation and Quakers...

@BridgetPhetasy Jew haters are just as stupid and dangerous as man haters, white people haters, etc.

I fought the retard left. And I see I’m gonna have to fight the retard whatever this new thing is too.

@mjarbo They were both strong women driven by maternal instincts to fight for people they cared about. Being a female lead doesn't make them DEI hires. Being ridiculous Mary Sue, abrasive girl bosses is why people don't respond to a lot of recent leading females.

If Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley were characters in movies today, they would absolutely be attacked for being woke and DEI

I’m not too dogmatic about which Christian denomination is correct because I think we’re probably all doing it wrong in different ways. It’s a miracle of grace that Jesus accepts any of us at all.

Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.

Harvard circa 1700s: "No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon." Harvard circa 2026: "We can't assign whole novels anymore."